VP Engineering

About the role

The VP Engineering will define and own the technical strategy for Quantexa's partner ecosystem, translating business ambitions into executable architecture and delivery standards. This role is responsible for leading the global Partner Solution Architects team and ensuring that all partner-integrated solutions meet enterprise-grade quality and security benchmarks. You will act as the executive owner for partner technical success, driving velocity, co-innovation, and repeatable deployment across the world's largest technology and consulting ecosystems. The position requires setting the vision for marketplace consumption, aligning architecture standards with cloud incentives and AI collaboration opportunities, and ensuring that every decision is made with context derived from the platform's Decision Intelligence capabilities. You will directly influence ecosystem growth by enabling partners to deliver high-impact solutions that accelerate revenue and production deployments with measurable governance discipline.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Set the global Partner Engineering strategy and define architecture standards that align with cloud marketplaces, consumption incentives, and AI/data collaboration models.
• Lead the technical co-innovation blueprinting process, developing quick starts and integration patterns for hyperscalers, industry ISVs, and GSI solution frameworks.
• Personally sponsor and govern the reference architecture, connector strategy, AI/data interop strategy, and workload optimization patterns to ensure partner solutions meet enterprise requirements.
• Create and enforce enterprise-grade integration frameworks and architectural guardrails that reduce delivery risk and accelerate partner and customer deployments.
• Partner with Product and R&D teams to ensure cross-functional alignment on roadmap priorities and innovation initiatives that enhance ecosystem value.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a global team of Partner Solution Architects, providing coaching and technical leadership in joint solution architecture, Partner-led PoCs and PoVs, demo and sandbox platforms, deployment acceleration, and technical certifications.
• Build and evolve a Partner Architecture Centre of Excellence that matches or exceeds the capabilities of top-tier ecosystem engineering organizations in the industry.
• Define clear role expectations, capability uplift plans, and field alignment models for PSA teams to ensure consistent execution across regions and partner types.
• Establish a performance-driven culture focused on partner adoption velocity, proof of value win rates, demo adoption, deployment acceleration, and marketplace ARR contributions.
• Collaborate closely with Field Alliances, Field Engineering, and Regional Vice Presidents to enable ecosystem attribution and ensure technical initiatives are aligned with commercial outcomes.
• Own the technical roadmaps for hyperscaler and ISV partnerships, including marketplace-ready joint solutions, integration and consumption patterns tied to incentives, and field delivery kits for PSA and partner sellers.
• Drive GSI partnerships toward factory-style delivery motions by launching industry-specific solutions and field-ready playbooks with global systems integrators.
• Govern multi-party architecture risk, security, deployment patterns, and time-to-value metrics while maintaining executive sponsor checkpoints and transparency.
• Act as the primary evangelist for ecosystem opportunities, qualifying hypotheses for embedded or OEM models and leading new commercial and technical pursuits.
• Work with Product leadership to define the ecosystem's technical differentiation narrative, emphasizing decision context, AI and data intelligence, workflows, and enterprise integration depth compared to point solutions and platform incumbents.
• Ensure PSAs and partners can clearly communicate why the Quantexa platform wins based on architectural strength, commercial viability, and operational performance.

Requirements

• Demonstrate proven executive leadership in building partner engineering teams within large enterprise software ecosystems, with a track record of scaling technical delivery organizations.
• Show deep technical fluency across data platforms, AI and machine learning, analytics, cloud integration patterns, connectors, workflow systems, and marketplace consumption architectures.
• Have direct experience launching production-hardened joint solutions with hyperscalers and global systems integrators, with evidence of measurable revenue impact and deployment success.
• Possess the ability to translate complex platform capabilities into partner-owned architectures that can scale across diverse customer estates and regulatory environments.
• Exhibit a practitioner's mindset for governance, including PoV and partnership program certification, deployment velocity optimization, risk mitigation, and technical adoption key performance indicators.
• Bring extensive experience working with cloud marketplaces, consumption-based billing models, and incentive structures that drive partner behavior and ecosystem growth.
• Show mastery of enterprise-grade integration frameworks, including security, identity, data governance, and deployment patterns that support multi-tenant and multi-party architectures.
• Have a history of executive-level engagement with C-suite stakeholders in technology and consulting, articulating technical strategy in business terms and securing commitment for ecosystem investments.

Nice to have

Preferred experience with Decision Intelligence platforms and context-driven decisioning ecosystems.

Demonstrated success managing Partner Solution Architects in a global, matrixed environment.

Track record of building Centers of Excellence for partner engineering or similar ecosystem functions.

Experience with OEM, embedded product, and co-selling motion architectures in enterprise software.

Practical notes

This role is full-time based in London.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship.

Visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.

Relocation support is not included.

The position requires availability for interviews within a short notice period due to the seniority and strategic impact of the role.